Dreadful, but why don't the cinema staff do something about rowdy people at films? I went to see HP a couple of weeks ago and there was a 2yo running about, crying and talking. This was at a 7.45pm veiwing - very bad of the parents I thought.

Posted on myredcardigan's thread and then saw this. Yes, it's truly awful. I'm someone who asks kids to keep the noise down in the cinema, and can imagine the scenario all too easily.

I disagree with the 'practically everywhere is safe' claim. Far too often this type of thing happens - not bleach, obviously, but abuse and aggression because someone has been taken to task about their behaviour.

I also think that it is not true that practically everywhere is safe. A young man was beaten up so severely by a couple of 18 year olds recently that he died in hospital 2 days later, and this was in a market town in the heart of the Cotswolds. Not exactly inner-city violence.

There are pigs amongst us everywhere. It's just being in the wrong place at the wrong time to cross their path's.

I remember year's ago (about 1990), me and my sister were followed by a group of young 'men' - if you can call them that, along a country lane. They were up my sister's backside all the way flashing and tooting us. When they got to the junction, they pulled up along side us and spat at my sister! And the spit landed on her arm! My sister called them 'scum' and they just laughed and drove off the other way!!

I'm afraid it's the way of the world now. A total lack of respect for anyone and it's a very sad sign of the times. This sort of thing would have been unheard of when my mother was young in the 1950's. Gone are the days when people had manners and men tipped their hats to ladies.

I also blame popular films. If you watch films from the 1940s and 1950s, most men,even nasty men were polite to women and children.But now there is sadism against women and children and its very very sad.

i am expert at telling people off in the cinema, took kids last week and two women sat behind us were wittering away while their kids sat beautifully watching the film, so I turned round and informed them starbucks was just down the road if they wanted to gossip, I wanted to hear the film so could they please SHUT UP.